Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-03-09
(Cmduded.)

Good birth makes good training
comparatively easy. The first requi-
site in parents for good training is a
knowledge Of the general laws Of
physical health and Of moral and
mental growth. Ignorance here is
the source Of the yearly slaughter Of
many innocents, of much lifelong
invalidism. and of much mental and
moral weakness, for which no after
repentance of parents can make
amends. Laws preside " all nor
NAL development, and these laws
must be known and obeyed, or seri-
Gus losses must follow.
Parents and children enter together
into the labors, the sufFerings, the en-
joyments and the hopes Of life. Life
has for them one law and one solution,
and this law 10 the moral law, and
this solution religion. The best
powers, the highest wisdom, the
profoundest faith Of parents will be
called into requistion. Their own
education must needs advance while
fulfilling their responsibilities to their
children, guiding them into benef-
icent purposes and labors for the
world. Time, thought, sympathy
and companionship must father and
mother give to their offspring, or suf-
fer irreparaLle loss, both for them and
for themselves. No duties will bring
richer reward. Wisdom and pa
thence are as potent, certainly, in the
rearing Of domestic animals; and
"of how much more value is q man
than a sheepp
It is in part because of this strict
community in spiritual life in the
household, its reciprocal ministra-
tons and collective strength. that We
would insist 80 strongly on the true
position Of the wife and mother. She
must claim it for the sake of her
children as we'll AZ for her own sake.
The ideal mother can be 10 mere
household drudge, mi~nistering to
the physical wants only Of her fam
lily, and sacrificing herself on the
altar Of wifehood and motherhood,
to be weaker and less regarded for
this very self-abenegation. As the
father can not wisely devote his en-
tire time and energies to his business
or profession, but needs the COM
partnership and duties of the home
to sweeten and make symmetrical
his character, 80 the mother requires
outside interests and activities to
broaden her knowledge, deepen her
sympathies, and enlarge her mental
vision. Not otherwise can she fully
meet the demands Of the ideal home
with it's claims on ali spiritual wealth.
She must seek and obtain influence
and authority in school, church and
State, that her counsel may CON-
mand the respect Of her children,
and her love win their love. The
richest ministrations ofaffection need
the support Of intelligence for their
full influence. Affection may aid,
but it ran not displace, the word Of
wisdom. The welfare of the home
and her own individual growth, alike,
call for this enlarged social and po-
litical power for the mother, or her
weakness will in some direction be-
tray the interests committed to her.
lit be thought that herein We are
laying new burdens on physical
powers already too weak for those
which are being borne, we answer
that many trivial, misunderstanding
things, the useless, wearisome tasks
which fashion and society now assign
TO unoccupicd powers, = to be es-
capped; and that the strength for full
and varied service will spring up
with the service itself. Az in the
history Of the world women have
not shown themselves unable to bear
even the most degrading, unrcquiting
and irksome toll 90, certainly, they
will not fail Of the power required
loS noble labor.
Together, parents and children
build up the ideal home, full oflovs
and kindness, full Of wisdom and
discipline, ths center Of Ill divine
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